9 Cost Cutting Tips for Designers and Developers

October 23rd, 2009 | 20 Comments | Posted in Various

Starting an online career can be an expensive experience, especially with the ever-increasing cost of software suites and design programs. Even the most basic PC can cost upwards of $600, and with programs like Photoshop and Flash thrown into the mix, the cost can easily double (or even triple) once software gets thrown in.

Thankfully, PC hardware prices are at record lows, with a great (albeit basic) PC now affordable for even the most frugal designer. Still, for aspiring designers and bootstrapping entrepreneurs, savings are useful everywhere. These tips will help you cut down your software costs, eliminate needless expenses, and boost productivity — allowing you to take on more work.

Cost Cutting Tips for Designers

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Current trends in Web Design: The influence of print/typography on the Web

October 21st, 2009 | 15 Comments | Posted in Web Design

or why it’s called a web”page”

Legibility has always been of utmost importance in the process of visual communication. Billboards, advertisements, flyers. The clearer the message, the better the impact it tends to have on the target audience; the greater the sales.

In the 1990′s, with the emergence and increasing popularity of the internet came attempts to adapt this attention-grabbing visual aesthetic to websites. The effect this had though was to clutter up the real estate of the screen with unnecessary elements that didn’t really add to the effectiveness of communicating the message, but instead distracted and confused the user.

Today, there is a changing trend where the rules of traditional print design are being applied to the web. We see websites that are more typographically driven, with the main design elements being lines, subtle shifts in color and maybe one or two large images. This is similar to print design, where the message is relayed through words and images, and thus legibility of those words and images is of utmost importance.

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Creative Use of Typography : Inspiration

October 20th, 2009 | 5 Comments | Posted in Inspiration

Typography – web design, posters, web banners or anything related to web or print industry. Typography alone is capable of making a design so much more creative and cool. We (designers) work on and see a lot of typography ein our daily work but we are always looking for inspiration, so today we are here with some awesome typography work. I hope it will be inspirational for our readers. Thanks!

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